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“He was my best friend, and it's sad to see him gone,” his sister, Fa-tia Johnson said.

A U.S. Air Force C-130J military transport plane crashed overnight at an air base in eastern Afghanistan, killing six American airmen and five civilians on the aircraft, the U.S. military said Friday.

The crash happened shortly after midnight Thursday at Jalalabad air field, 80 miles from the capital, Kabul, said U.S. Air Force Maj. Tony Wickman, spokesman for the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing.

The airmen were assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Air Lift Squadron, part of the 455th, and the plane, a Super Hercules, crashed "shortly after take-off wholly within the airfield," he said.

The six U.S. service members who died comprised the plane's crew. The passengers were civilian contractors working with NATO's Resolute Support mission and were the only passengers on board, Wickman added.

"He was an amazing individual, and we really lost one, but you know what they gained an angel, and he took him too soon, but you know what it might have been his time, the Lord wanted him home,” Fa-tia Johnson said.

Johnson-Harris' high school football coach said he left a mark in the classroom and on the football field.

"I was fortunate enough to have Quinn in class. In addition to coaching him, he was in my algebra class,’ Homestead High School football coach David Keel said.

Keel said he knew the Air Force had one of the best when they chose Johnson-Harris.

“He came back one day in his Air Force uniform, and he could not have been more proud to be wearing the red, white and blue of the United States,” Keel said.

The family said before Johnson-Harris left to serve his country he joined Christ Church in Mequon. It's where he was baptized.

"When he heard about the assignment to go into Afghanistan, he was excited. He was ready to go,” Fa-tia Johnson said.